Being a FinTech CTO in Hong Kong Day 60
Difficult to believe it’s day 60 already but it’s true. Since my last post we have made significant progress in a number of areas but what I have found to be most pleasing is...
Career & Profile
Being a FinTech CTO in Hong Kong Day 26
It has been 26 days since I arrived in Hong Kong in my new role as CTO. It feels like I’ve been here a lot longer though, in very positive sense. Time is flying by and we are all keenly conscious of need to see clear progress towards our goals, and to this end, here are the main activities that I’ve been pursing and rationale behind prioritising these tasks.
Technology trends: Talent shortages and other CIO challenges for 2017
Chief Information Officers are getting increasingly frustrated with the lack of talent available to them in the marketplace. As Head of Recruitment Sales for Crimson, the UK’s leading IT recruitment services provider, I speak...
The role of the CISO, the CIO and the Board
In earlier articles, we have examined the challenges of the CIO around Information Security, the importance of the CISO reporting line, and the fundamental role the Board of Directors has to play to drive security transformation.
Here, we revisit and develop further some of these aspects in line with new reflexions and some feedback we received.
Reporting line of the CISO: Why reporting to the CIO is increasingly a problem in large firms
The reporting line of the CISO has to be at board level and must be driven by clear underlying objectives shared unambiguously by the CISO and their boss – whoever that happens to be in the organisation.
The Rise of CIOaaS (CIO as a Service)
The rise of fractional CIO’s (CIO as a Service) to assist small or medium-sized businesses with Technology Roadmaps, Business Process Improvements, and Business Technology Strategy, similar to the role of a traditional CIO.
